THE HARMONISED ELECTRICITY MARKET ROLE MODEL · 2017. 6. 16. · Definition of Role and party Addition of Metered data responsible Correction of metered data aggregator responsible

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THE HARMONISED

ELECTRICITY MARKET ROLE MODEL

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 9 3

2 ABOUT THE ROLE MODEL ........................................................................................ 9 4

3 PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF THE ROLE MODEL .................................................... 12 5

3.1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 12 6 3.2 ROLE CONSTRAINTS ...................................................................................................................... 12 7 3.3 ROLE MODEL USE ......................................................................................................................... 13 8

4 THE ROLE MODEL ................................................................................................. 14 9

5 ROLE MODEL DEFINITIONS ...................................................................................... 15 10

5.1 ROLES ......................................................................................................................................... 15 11 5.2 DOMAINS...................................................................................................................................... 22 12

6 THE ENTSO-E SCHEDULING SYSTEM WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL .............................. 27 13

7 THE ENTSO-E SETTLEMENT PROCESS WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL ........................... 28 14

8 THE ENTSO-E RESERVE RESOURCE PROCESS SYSTEM WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL .. 29 15

9 THE ENTSO-E CAPACITY ALLOCATION AND NOMINATION PROCESS WITHIN THE ROLE 16 MODEL ................................................................................................................. 30 17

10 THE EBIX STRUCTURE DOMAIN WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL ......................... 31 18

11 THE EBIX MEASURE DOMAIN WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL.............................. 32 19

12 THE EBIX RECONCILIATION PROCESS WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL .............. 33 20

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TABLE OF FIGURES 22

FIGURE 1:THE UML ACTOR SYMBOL IN THE ROLE MODEL ................................................... 10 23 FIGURE 2: THE CLASS SYMBOL IN THE ROLE MODEL ........................................................... 11 24 FIGURE 3: ROLE AND DOMAIN RELATIONSHIPS .................................................................... 11 25 26

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REVISION HISTORY 45

Version Release Date Paragraphs Comments

0 8 2001-02-10 Initial version for comment

1 0 2002-06-17 Initial release of document

2 0 2003-02-12 Add more detail to market

domains

3 0 2004-04-29 Add new domain of “unit”

“functional group” and “balance

group”, include the UCTE

environment and adopt model

to more correctly reflect the

overall market.

3 1 2004-09-22 3.1 introduction

5 and 6

Definition of Role and party

Addition of Metered data

responsible

Correction of metered data

aggregator responsible

3 2 2005-03-29 6 Clarified definitions in order to

bring it into line as a

harmonised version

4 0 2006-07-06 5 and 6 Introduced new domains

Resource Object, Reserve

Object and new roles Resource

Provider, Capacity Trader,

Interconnection Trade

Responsible, Nomination

Validator. Modified definition

Market Operator, System

Operator and Transmission

Capacity Allocator

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5 0 2007-12-01 5 and 6 Rationalised the relationships to

focalise where possible on

responsibility. Improved

definition layout. Added new

roles: Reconciliation

Responsible, Reconciliation

Accountable, Market

Information Aggregator

2008-01 2008-07-01 Change version

number

The version number is changed

in order to take into

consideration the 2 publications

per year (yyyy-01 and yyyy-02).

Definition changes Market Operator

Balance Supplier

Grid Operator

Resource Object

Capacity Trader

Domain name change CBT to ITC

2008-02 2008-12-08 New roles MOL Responsible for ERRP

Reserve Allocator for ERRP

Change relation Suppress the relation between

the Metered Data Responsible

and the Local metering point.

Add the relation between the

Metered Data Responsible and

the Metering Point

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2009-01 2009-06-26 Modified definition Adjusted all names in figure to

upper camel case.

Modified example for Capacity

Market Area

Added example to Common

Capacity Area

Modified definition of Grid

Access Provider

Modified definition of Market

Information Aggregator

Changed relation Modified name of relation of

Grid Access Provider with Local

Metering Point.

2011-01 2011-12-06 Complete review Complete review of document

text (the approval procedures

have been removed and the

main text (including the

introduction) has been

updated).

Add new Roles “Block Energy

Trader”, “Capacity Coordinator”

as well as the domain

“Accounting Point”

Modification of different

relations.

Approved by:

ENTSO-E Market Committee.

The EFET Management

Committee

The ebIX Plenary.

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2014-01 2014-01-28 Updated with changes agreed

by the Harmonisation group.

Changes to Data Provider

definition and diagram note,

Grid Access Provider definition,

Resource Object definition and

maintenance statement .

Approved by Market Committee

on 2013-05-15

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2015-01 2015-09-24 Deprecation of Functional

group

Added Data Provider

Suppression of the association

to functional group of the

related classes.

Removal of text boxes with

examples.

Multiplicity of [0..*] between

BRP and Balance group.

Changed names Reserve

Object” to “Reserve Resource”

“Resource Object” to

“Resource”

Added relation between

“Reserve Resource” and

“Accounting Point”.

Removal of relation between

Resource Provider and

Reserve Resource.

Reserve Resource definition

changed

Resource definition changed

Balance Group additional

information changed.

Modified relation between

Balance Group and Accounting

Point

Modified definition of Resource

Provider

Revised a number of

cardinalities

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1 INTRODUCTION 47

The Role Model has been developed in order to facilitate the dialogue between the market 48

participants from different countries through the designation of a single name for each role 49

and domain that are prevalent within the electricity market. Its focus is essentially to enable a 50

common terminology for IT development. 51

This document describes a model identifying all the roles that can be played for given 52

domains within the electricity market. The Role Model has been developed by ENTSO-E and 53

the associated organisations EFET and ebIX. It covers both the electricity wholesale and 54

retail markets. Roles are of a logical nature that act within or upon a given domain. 55

The document covers the roles as identified in current development being carried out in 56

information exchange. It will naturally grow or evolve as this work progresses. The reader is 57

therefore encouraged to ensure that the document is the latest available version. This may 58

be found at the following URL: 59

https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/electronic-data-interchange-edi-60

library/work%20products/Pages/default.aspx (Drop down menu ENTSO-E Harmonized 61

Electricity Role Model). 62

A Role Model of this nature shall be the formal means of identifying roles and domains that 63

are used in information interchange in the electricity market. It is important to stress that it is 64

not a model of the electricity market but rather a Role Model related to the information 65

interchange. 66

The necessity for such a model arises from the possibility that a single party in the market 67

may assume multiple roles. This implies that the roles need to be atomically decomposed 68

where necessary in order to satisfy the minimal information flows for a given process 69

required within the electricity market. 70

The Harmonised Role Model represents the logical representation of the entities used in 71

information interchange. 72

2 ABOUT THE ROLE MODEL 73

A “Role Model” provides a common definition of the roles and domains employed in the 74

electricity market which enables people to use a common language in the development of 75

information interchange. 76

A party on the market may play several roles, for example a TSO frequently plays both the 77

role of System Operator and the role of Imbalance Settlement Responsible. However two 78

different roles have been defined since these roles are not always played by the same party. 79

Even in a large organisation the roles may not be played by the same business unit. 80

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Consequently it is necessary to clearly define the roles in order to be in a position to correctly 81

use them as required. 82

It is important to differentiate between the roles that can be found on a given marketplace 83

and the parties that can play such roles. ENTSO-E and the associated organisations have 84

identified a given role whenever it has been found necessary to distinguish it in an 85

information interchange process. 86

The Model consequently identifies all the roles that intervene in the exchange of information 87

in the electricity market. These roles define the external interfaces managed by a party for 88

given processes. 89

It also identifies the different domains that are necessary in the electricity market for 90

information interchange. A domain represents a grouping of entities with common 91

characteristics. 92

To build a Role Model diagram the UML class diagramming technique has been used. The 93

diagram makes use of two UML symbols, the “actor” symbol (not to be confused with a party 94

on a marketplace) is used to represent a role and the “class” symbol is used to define a 95

domain. 96

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FIGURE 1:THE UML ACTOR SYMBOL IN THE ROLE MODEL 98

The Role Model shown in figure 1 shows the actor symbol used to identify roles. It also 99

introduces the concept of a “generalisation” relationship. The generalisation relationships in 100

the figure show that three roles inherit the basic properties of a “Balance Responsible Party”. 101

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FIGURE 2: THE CLASS SYMBOL IN THE ROLE MODEL 103

The class symbols outlined in figure 2 show an example of domains and indicate that a 104

Market Area is a generalisation of Local Market Areas, Common Capacity Areas and 105

Allocated Capacity Areas. One also sees that a Market Area is composed of Market Balance 106

Areas. 107

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FIGURE 3: ROLE AND DOMAIN RELATIONSHIPS 109

Figure 3 shows how roles may interact. The relationship that exists between the roles and 110

domains are shown by the arrows drawn between them. For example the System Operator 111

controls a Market Balance Area and reports the planned and regulation data to the 112

Imbalance Settlement Responsible who controls financially the Market Balance Area. 113

Naturally enough the role model does not show all the relationships that may exist between 114

the roles and the domains. The relationships in the model are there only to highlight the 115

major relationship that justifies the presence of a role or a domain. In other words not all 116

relationships are present. 117

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3 PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF THE ROLE MODEL 118

3.1 INTRODUCTION 119

A role represents the external intended behaviour of a party. Parties cannot share a role. 120

Businesses carry out their activities by performing roles, e.g. system operator, trader. Roles 121

describe external business interactions with other parties in relation to the goal of a given 122

business transaction. 123

A domain represents a delimited area that is uniquely identified for a specific purpose and 124

where energy consumption, production or trade may be determined. 125

An actor represents a party that participates in a business transaction. Within a given 126

business transaction an actor assumes a specific role or a set of roles. An actor is a 127

composition of one or more roles and as such does not appear in the model. 128

The objective of decomposing the electricity market into a set of autonomous roles and 129

domains is to enable the construction of business processes where the relevant role 130

participates to satisfy a specific transaction. Business processes should be designed to 131

satisfy the requirements of the roles and not of the parties. 132

It is not the intent of the Role Model to define the business processes and their transactions. 133

Business processes and their transactions shall be completely defined in a Business 134

Requirements Specification (BRS). 135

3.2 ROLE CONSTRAINTS 136

A role must be able to stand alone within the model. In other words it must represent a 137

relatively autonomous function. A good guide to determining the validity for the insertion of a 138

role is to determine whether it provides: 139

1. All the information relevant to interoperability. It must be able to participate in the 140 development of a business process by being a key factor in the construction of 141 the allowable sequences of information exchanges and satisfy the conditions in 142 which it is allowed to send information. In this respect it has to be autonomous. 143 That is to say it must have the business responsibility which enables it to: 144

receive information from another role, 145

determine the actions to be carried out on the information in 146 question, 147

terminate, if necessary, prematurely, the exchange with respect to 148 predefined rules, 149

send information to the role in question or to another role, 150

manage error conditions. 151

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2. Satisfy the process constraints in which the role participates. Such constraints 152 impose restrictions on how roles may or must react. These constraints will be 153 defined within the business process specification. Such constraints include: 154

demands on quality of service imposed by the business process 155 requirements for a role, such as network acknowledgement or 156 security features; 157

constraints on the characteristics of the party that can play the role; 158

constraints on the preconditions that must be met before a role can 159 be played; 160

constraints on the ability of a party to assign all or part of a role to 161 another party; 162

The role shall be generic. The model is intended to be employed 163 throughout the industry. Consequently roles that are specific or that 164 are particular to only one European context shall not appear in the 165 model. 166

In essence this means that a separate role shall be identified when it can be 167

played by a third party (= a party that can carry out the task on behalf of another 168

party or as an independent entity). E.g. the Transmission Capacity Allocator can 169

carry out the capacity allocation on behalf of the System Operator. 170

3.3 ROLE MODEL USE 171

The Role Model shall be used as the basis for the construction of the business processes 172

that are necessary for the electricity market. The generic nature of the Role Model should 173

cover all the roles that can be used in a heterogeneous environment. 174

If, during the course of the construction of a process, a role is found to be missing from the 175

Role Model a maintenance request should be made requesting its inclusion in the model. 176

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4 THE ROLE MODEL 178

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5 ROLE MODEL DEFINITIONS 181

5.1 ROLES 182

ROLES

TYPE ROLE NAME DESCRIPTION

Actor

Balance

Responsible

Party

A party that has a contract proving financial security and

identifying balance responsibility with the Imbalance Settlement

Responsible of the Market Balance Area entitling the party to

operate in the market. This is the only role allowing a party to

nominate energy on a wholesale level.

Additional information:

The meaning of the word “balance” in this context signifies that

that the quantity contracted to provide or to consume must be

equal to the quantity really provided or consumed.

Equivalent to “Program responsible party” in the Netherlands.

Equivalent to “Balance group manager” in Germany.

Equivalent to “market agent” in Spain.

Actor Balance Supplier

A party that markets the difference between actual metered

energy consumption and the energy bought with firm energy

contracts by the Party Connected to the Grid. In addition the

Balance Supplier markets any difference with the firm energy

contract (of the Party Connected to the Grid) and the metered

production.


There is only one Balance Supplier for each Accounting Point.

Actor Billing Agent The party responsible for invoicing a concerned party.

Actor Block Energy

Trader

A party that is selling or buying energy on a firm basis (a fixed

volume per market time period).

Actor Capacity

Coordinator

A party, acting on behalf of the System Operators involved,

responsible for establishing a coordinated Offered Capacity

and/or NTC and/or ATC between several Market Balance Areas.

Actor Capacity Trader A party that has a contract to participate in the Capacity Market to

acquire capacity through a Transmission Capacity Allocator.

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Note:

The capacity may be acquired on behalf of an Interconnection

Trade Responsible or for sale on secondary capacity markets.

Actor Consumer

A party that consumes electricity.


This is a Type of Party Connected to the Grid.

Actor

Consumption

Responsible

Party

A party who can be brought to rights, legally and financially, for

any imbalance between energy nominated and consumed for all

associated Accounting Points.


This is a type of Balance Responsible Party.

Actor Control Area

Operator

Responsible for :

1. The coordination of exchange programs between its related Market Balance Areas and for the exchanges between its associated Control Areas.

2. The load frequency control for its own area.

3. The coordination of the correction of time deviations.

Actor Control Block

Operator

Responsible for :

1. The coordination of exchanges between its associated Control Blocks and the organisation of the coordination of exchange programs between its related Control Areas.

2. The load frequency control within its own block and ensuring that its Control Areas respect their obligations in respect to load frequency control and time deviation.

3. The organisation of the settlement and/or compensation between its Control Areas.

Actor Coordination

Center Operator

Responsible for :

1. The coordination of exchange programs between its related Control Blocks and for the exchanges between its associated Coordination Center Zones.

2. Ensuring that its Control Blocks respect their obligations in respect to load frequency control.

3. Calculating the time deviation in cooperation with the associated coordination centers.

4. Carrying out the settlement and/or compensation between its Control Blocks and against the other Coordination Center Zones.

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Actor Data Provider

A party that is has a mandate to provide information to other

parties in the energy market.

Note:

For example, due to Article 2 of the European Commission

Regulation 543/2013 of the 14th of June 2013, a data provider

may be a Transmission System Operator or a third party agreed

by a TSO.

Actor Grid Access

Provider

A party responsible for providing access to the grid through an

Accounting Point and its use for energy consumption or

production to the Party Connected to the Grid.

Actor Grid Operator A party that operates one or more grids.

Actor

Imbalance

Settlement

Responsible

A party that is responsible for settlement of the difference

between the contracted quantities and the realised quantities of

energy products for the Balance Responsible Parties in a Market

Balance Area.

Note:

The Imbalance Settlement Responsible has not the responsibility

to invoice. The Imbalance Settlement Responsible may delegate

the invoicing responsibility to a more generic role such as a Billing

Agent.

Actor

Interconnection

Trade

Responsible

Is a Balance Responsible Party or depends on one. He is

recognised by the Nomination Validator for the nomination of

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Actor

Market

Information

Aggregator

A party that provides market related information that has been

compiled from the figures supplied by different actors in the

market. This information may also be published or distributed for

general use.

Note:

The Market Information Aggregator may receive information from

any market participant that is relevant for publication or

distribution.

Actor Market Operator

The unique power exchange of trades for the actual delivery of

energy that receives the bids from the Balance Responsible

Parties that have a contract to bid. The Market Operator

determines the market energy price for the Market Balance Area

after applying technical constraints from the System Operator. It

may also establish the price for the reconciliation within a

Metering Grid Area.

Actor Meter

Administrator A party responsible for keeping a database of meters.

Actor Metered Data

Aggregator

A party responsible for the establishment and qualification of

metered data from the Metered Data Responsible. This data is

aggregated according to a defined set of market rules.

Actor Metered Data

Collector

A party responsible for meter reading and quality control of the

reading.

Actor Metered Data

Responsible

A party responsible for the establishment and validation of

metered data based on the collected data received from the

Metered Data Collector. The party is responsible for the history of

metered data for a Metering Point.

Actor Metering Point

Administrator

A party responsible for registering the parties linked to the

metering points in a Metering Grid Area. He is also responsible

for maintaining the Metering Point technical specifications. He is

responsible for creating and terminating metering points.

Actor Meter Operator A party responsible for installing, maintaining, testing, certifying

and decommissioning physical meters.

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Actor MOL Responsible

Responsible for the management of the available tenders for all

Acquiring System Operators to establish the order of the reserve

capacity that can be activated.

Actor Nomination

Validator

Has the responsibility of ensuring that all capacity nominated is

within the allowed limits and confirming all valid nominations to all

involved parties. He informs the Interconnection Trade

Responsible of the maximum nominated capacity allowed.

Depending on market rules for a given interconnection the

corresponding System Operators may appoint one Nomination

Validator.

Actor Party Connected

to the Grid

A party that contracts for the right to consume or produce

electricity at an Accounting Point.

Actor Producer

A party that produces electricity.


This is a type of Party Connected to the Grid.

Actor

Production

Responsible

Party


any imbalance between energy nominated and produced for all




Actor Reconciliation

Accountable

A party that is financially accountable for the reconciled volume of

energy products for a profiled Accounting Point.

Actor Reconciliation

Responsible

A party that is responsible for reconciling, within a Metering Grid

Area, the volumes used in the imbalance settlement process for

profiled Accounting Points and the actual metered quantities.

Note:

The Reconciliation Responsible may delegate the invoicing

responsibility to a more generic role such as a Billing Agent.

Actor Reserve Allocator

Informs the market of reserve requirements, receives tenders

against the requirements and in compliance with the

prequalification criteria, determines what tenders meet

requirements and assigns tenders.

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Actor Resource

Provider

A role that manages a resource and provides the schedules for it,

if required.

Actor Scheduling

Coordinator

A party that is responsible for the schedule information and its

exchange on behalf of a Balance Responsible Party.

For example in the Polish market a Scheduling Coordinator is

responsible for information interchange for scheduling and

settlement.

Actor System Operator

A party that is responsible for a stable power system operation

(including the organisation of physical balance) through a

transmission grid in a geographical area. The System Operator

will also determine and be responsible for cross border capacity

and exchanges. If necessary he may reduce allocated capacity to

ensure operational stability.

Transmission as mentioned above means “the transport of

electricity on the extra high or high voltage network with a view to

its delivery to final customers or to distributors. Operation of

transmission includes as well the tasks of system operation

concerning its management of energy flows, reliability of the

system and availability of all necessary system services”.

(definition taken from the ENTSO-E RGCE Operation handbook

Glossary).

Note:

Additional obligations may be imposed through local market rules.

Actor

Trade

Responsible

Party


any imbalance between energy nominated and consumed for all


Note:

A power exchange without any privileged responsibilities acts as

a Trade Responsible Party.



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Actor Transmission

Capacity Allocator

Manages the allocation of transmission capacity for an Allocated

Capacity Area.

For explicit auctions:

The Transmission Capacity Allocator manages, on behalf of the

System Operators, the allocation of available transmission

capacity for an Allocated capacity Area. He offers the available

transmission capacity to the market, allocates the available

transmission capacity to individual Capacity Traders and

calculates the billing amount of already allocated capacities to the

Capacity Traders.

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5.2 DOMAINS 184

DOMAINS

Domain DOMAIN NAME DESCRIPTION

Domain Accounting Point

An entity under balance responsibility where balance

supplier change can take place and for which

commercial business processes are defined.


These entities are usually defined in a contract.

Typical business processes where this would be used

may be “compensation management”, “settlement”,

“calculation of energy volumes”, etc

This is a type of metering point.

Domain Allocated Capacity Area

A market area where the transmission capacity

between the Balance Areas is given to the Balance

Responsible Parties according to rules carried out by a

Transmission Capacity Allocator. Trade between

balance areas is carried out on a bilateral or unilateral

basis.


This is a type of Market Area.

Note:

Example are also France-Spain (Pyrenees) and

Portugal-Spain.

Domain Balance Group

A collection of Metering Points for imbalance

settlement

Note:

Equivalent to “Balance Group” (Bilanzgruppe) in the

Austrian market or (Bilanzkreis) in the German market

German definition: It is composed of a various

number of metering points within a Market Balance

Area.

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Domain Capacity Market Area

A market area where the transmission capacity

between the Market Balance Areas is given to the

Balance Responsible Parties in a price based process

separated from trading carried out by a Transmission

Capacity Allocator. Trade between Market Balance

Areas is carried out on a bilateral or unilateral basis.

For example

The auctioning system between TenneT and RWE

Net.


This is a type of Market Area

Domain Certificate Area

A Certificate Market Area where a common set of

rules relative to taxes and pricing for defined types of

energy production are applied.



Domain Common Capacity Area

A Market Area where the available transmission

capacity between the Market Balance Areas is given

to the Balance Responsible Parties based on their

bidding to the Market Operator. Trade between Market

Balance Areas is carried out through the Market

Operator.



Domain Control Area

The composition of one or more Market Balance Areas

under the same technical load frequency control

responsibility

Note:

In some cases there may be some Metering Points

that belong to a Market Balance Area that is not a part

of the Control Area. However these do not impact the

general definition, for example, a village in one country

connected to the grid of another.

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Domain Control Block

The composition of one or more Control Areas,

working together to ensure the load frequency control

on behalf of RGCE.

Domain Control Entity

A geographic area consisting of one or more Metering

Grid Areas with an energy delivery responsibility. Each

area is synchronously connected to another area. In

most cases such areas have a load frequency

responsibility and therefore may have to report to a

higher level control entity.

Domain Coordination Center Zone

The composition of a number of Control Blocks under

the responsibility of the same Coordination Center

Operator.

Domain Functional Group

A collection of Metering Points for consumption and

generation within a Market Balance Area.

DEPRECIATED

Domain ITC

The Inter TSO Compensation (ITC) market is

composed of a group of System Operators that accept

a common set of rules for the invoicing of energy flows

over the border.



Domain Local Market Area

A Market Area where there is no transmission capacity

restrictions between the Market Balance Areas.



Domain Market Area

An area made up of several Market Balance Areas

interconnected through AC or DC links. Trade is

allowed between different Market Balance Areas with

common market rules for trading across the

interconnection.

Domain Market Balance Area A geographic area consisting of one or more Metering

Grid Areas with common market rules for which the

settlement responsible party carries out a balance

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settlement and which has the same price for

imbalance.

A Market Balance Area may also be defined due to

bottlenecks.

Domain Meter A physical device containing one or more registers.

Domain Metering Grid Area

A Metering Grid Area is a physical area where

consumption, production and exchange can be

metered. It is delimited by the placement of meters for

period measurement for input to, and withdrawal from

the area. It can be used to establish the sum of

consumption and production with no period

measurement and network losses.

Domain Metering point An entity where energy products are measured or

computed.

Domain National Area

An area covered by a single set of national electricity

arrangements established at government level.

This is not necessarily the same as the geographical

boundaries of a nation.


This is a type of Market Area

Domain Register A physical or logical counter measuring energy

products.

Domain Reserve Resource

A resource technically pre-qualified using a uniform

set of standards to supply reserve capabilities to a

System Operator and is associated with one or more

tele-measuring devices.


This is a type of Resource.

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Domain Resource

An object that represents a grid asset, a consumption resource or a production resource related to the energy industry.


A Resource can represent for example a generating unit, a consumption unit or a virtual power plant defined in a contract.

Domain RGCE Interconnected

Group

The composition of a number of coordination center

zones, operating under RGCE rules, where the

exchange and compensation programmes within the

zone must sum up to zero.

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6 THE ENTSO-E SCHEDULING SYSTEM WITHIN THE ROLE 186

MODEL 187

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7 THE ENTSO-E SETTLEMENT PROCESS WITHIN THE 190

ROLE MODEL 191

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8 THE ENTSO-E RESERVE RESOURCE PROCESS SYSTEM 194

WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL 195

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9 THE ENTSO-E CAPACITY ALLOCATION AND 198

NOMINATION PROCESS WITHIN THE ROLE MODEL 199

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10 THE EBIX STRUCTURE DOMAIN WITHIN THE 202

ROLE MODEL 203

The subset of the ENTSO-E, EFET and ebIX® Harmonised Role Model related to the 204

ebIX® Master Data processes concern changes, additions and ending of entities. Examples 205

of such processes are Change of Supplier, End of Supply, Change of Balance Responsible 206

Party and Query/Response Metering Point Master Data. 207

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11 THE EBIX MEASURE DOMAIN WITHIN THE ROLE 209

MODEL 210


ebIX® Measure domain concerns the exchange of collected data, validated and/or 212

aggregated measured data for use in various business processes. Examples of such 213

business processes are Imbalance Settlement, Reconciliation, Billing, Labelling (green 214

certificates). 215

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12 THE EBIX RECONCILIATION PROCESS WITHIN 217

THE ROLE MODEL 218


ebIX® business process for Reconciliation (as part of the ebIX® Settle domain) concerns 220

the exchange of business data in the various steps of the reconciliation process. 221

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